Top Mornington Peninsula Classes & Workshops

Get creative and design your own skin care product using 100% natural and cruelty-free ingredients. In this hands-on workshop, you will learn about the basics of natural skin care formulation and discover what ingredients are best for you own skin. Both your skin and your soul will thank you! Skincare is an essential component in self-care and self-love. While skin care products touch our skin and lives, we know very little about them.This three-hour workshop is designed to teach you the basics of natural skin care formulation, how to read a cosmetic label, what ingredients suit you best and which ingredients to avoid. Using 100% natural, vegan and cruelty-free ingredients, you will create your own unique formulation and put them together into a face wash or cleanser to take home. After your workshop, enjoy light and healthy refreshments in a relaxed environment.

Want to understand the best cuts of meat for your favourite dishes and fancy using your butchery skills at home? This is the ideal class for you! Our chefs will demonstrate how to break down a full lamb carcass and explain the various cuts of lamb and from what part of the animal each product comes. You will do “hands on” boning of a chicken and breaking it into various cuts before marinating with herbs from our kitchen garden.

Experience the Mornington Peninsula’s culinary heritage during a cooking class on a picturesque farm in Flinders. Your chef-instructor teaches a hands-on lesson that starts in the fields where you collect fresh herbs and other ingredients, then continues in a kitchen outfitted with premium equipment. Learn to make the most of seasonal products in your recipes and enjoy the delicious dishes that you make.

Learn the secrets to making the perfect pizza dough as well as the importance of yeast and using the right woodfired toppings. Tour the kitchen garden, picking your own herbs, leaves and vegetables for your own individual pizza. Our pizza making class will teach you how to use a pizza oven, provide you with baking tips, and show you what wood and equipment to use to make the perfect woodfired pizza. You will also perfect the finishing and dressing of your pizza to ensure you have the most delicious pizza to serve.

You will feel so welcome in this beautiful home overlooking the magnificent golf course views where Chef Jacqui will take you through a fun and very informative cooking class in her well appointed kitchen. She teaches you a chefs way of preparation with tips and techniques that you need to reproduce this wonderful menu. You will enjoy canapés, entree, main and dessert all cooked by you with the constant guidance and assistance from Jacqui. Her huge 12 seater dining table is set for the fantastic luncheon that awaits us after all our hard work and a glass or two to top it off. Bon appetite!

Paddock to plate food at Green Olive at Red Hill … roll up your sleeves and joining the farmer in the paddock and the chef in the kitchen. You will tour the property learning about biological farming, olive oil and table olives, sustainable vineyard practices and why ‘terroir’ plays such an important role in producing great wines. Learn all about seasonal produce in the ‘kitchen’ garden, while touching, feeling, smelling and being a part of the food you will then cook. Then guided by our chef use your culinary skills to create a true “paddock to plate dish.” Once the hard work is done sit down and enjoy your food creation with a glass of Estate Grown Wine.

Our cooking course on the Mornington Peninsula covers everything pasta; such as types of flour used in pasta dough making, equipment you will need and ingredients used in filled pasta’s such as tortellini. You’ll learn to mix the ingredients and then knead, rest, roll and cut the dough to shape. Hands on, step by step class which will also cover pasta fillings that you can hand pick from our farm garden. You will also gain knowledge about extra virgin olive oil and how to best use this great ingredient in your pasta and other cooking.

We will show you everything about bratwurst sausage making; from the best cuts of meat to use, how to grind meat, herbs and seasonings to use and how to fill natural sausage casings through to the different ways to cook sausages. You will use spices and fresh herbs from our garden to individually season your own batch of sausages.